Fox News
Jasmine Baehr
September 9, 2026
A federal advisory committee voted 9-3 to deny renewed recognition to NACCAS, putting student aid at risk
The Trump administration is weighing the future of an accreditor overseeing roughly 1,300 beauty and cosmetology schools and more than 120,000 students, in a decision that could test how the president’s push to overhaul higher education accreditation is applied beyond the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) battles that have dominated the issue.
President Donald Trump promised during the 2024 campaign to “fire the radical left accreditors” and called accreditation his “secret weapon” against colleges and universities he argued had been captured by the political left.
But the case now before the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) is different.